Clothes-line supporter.



c. L. BLUDGBTT;

CLOTHES LINE SUPPOBTEB.

APPLIGATIOI IILED' JUNE 15, 1912.

Patented Feb. 18, 1913.

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Specication of Letters Patent.

'Appiieatin mea June 15, 1912. serial Na'voassa.

To all w/wmrz' may concern:

Be it known'thatl, CHARLES L. BLoDGnT'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oakland, in the Acounty vof Alameda and State o f California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes! Line Supporters, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing; y

This invention relates to clothes line supporters and has for its object thel production of an efficient supporter whereby the same will be firmly held upon the line so. as to prevent the same from becoming inadvertently detached therefrom, but yet may be readily detached from the line when so"de sired. f l

Another object of this invention is the production of an efficient supporter whichr` will hold the two lin-es spaced sufficiently as to prevent the same from becoming tangled.

With these and other objects in View this invention consists of certain novel constructions, combinations" and arrangements of vparts as will be hereinafter fully described and claimedr, I

vIn thedrawings:-Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device attached to a clothes line. l F 2'is an enlarged side elevation of the supporter. F ig. 3 is an edge view of the device.l Fig. 4 is an enlargedsectionalview taken lon the line4-4 of Fig. 2.

By considering the drawing, it will be seen that the clothes line supporters are attached to the line of the pulley type wherein one strand of the line 'constitutes a supporting` member, and the other line constitutes al line for connecting the clothes thereto. f The supporter used in connection wlth the present device consists in -a straight flat body 1 made' of sheet metal having anupper termlnal loop 2 within which is journaled a pulley The terminal loop 2 is provided with an offset portion4 terminating in a straight body as indicated at 5in Fig. 3. The free end ofthe loop 2 is curved inwardly as indicated at 6 in Fig. 3,Y and terminates V1n a finger piece 7 for facilitating the withdrawing of the free end of the looplfrom the body portion 5. This finger piece 7 engages the fiat straight body portion 5 asindicated is 'bent from the body 13 at 8 infFig. thereby constituting an effi tapers toward its lower end for supporting t-he'clothes line strand 10. This loop 9 is offset outwardly as at 11 as indicated in Fig. 3v so as to form a wide inlet for the wire when' the free end of the loop is bentoutwardly., The free end of the loop is bent to forma finger piece 12 and this `finger piece of the lower loop 9, as indicated at 14. The free end of the loop engages the straight dat portion 15 of the' body-1, andit will, therefore be seen that the free` end of the loop 9 will have a flat even surface upon which to rest when theloop is ina closed position.

It will be seen that owing to the offset -portions 4 of the loop 2 and offset portion 11 of the loop 9, the strands of the clothesline may be directed out upon the straight sur-` face 5- of the body portion 1 when the free ends ofthe loops 2 and 9 are drawn away from the body thereby allowing the clothes line to be removed from the support. Furthermore, it will be seen -that this loop engages a fiat lportion and does not engage thev sloping portion of the loop, and owing tb this fact, an eiiicientmeans has been prdduced for firmly clamping the lower 4end of the loop. in-a closed position. It should be understood'that the loop 9, as well as the loop 2 is formed of spring metal so as to hold thejsaine ina closed position, and that this body is made comparatively long so as to constitute a spacer to hold the lower clothes line in a spaced relation .relative tothe upper :fog

supporting strand of the line whereby the p lines will be held from becoming twisted.

,The pulley 3 is'journaled upon a pin 16 which hasy its head 17 flattened upon the outer face of the sides of the loop 2. The clothes line 18 is supported upon the end pulleys. 19 which pulleys are rotatably mounted upon the supporting brackets 20,

whichbrackets engage the hook 21. These brackets 21 are :provided with guiding loops 22 extending upon opposite sidesfof the pulley 19, and-these loops constitute guides 4for preventing the line 18 from becoming inad-.l mally in engagement with the straight lp01:-

vertently detached from the pulley 19. tion.

i What is claimed is In testimony whereof I hereunto aiix my A clothes line support having a straight slgnature in presence of two witnesses.

5 flat body, the latter being continued into CHARLES L. BLODGETT.

terminal loops the sides of which are offset Witnesses:l with respect to said strai ht portion. and CHARLES H. FROST,

said loops terminating 1n ger pieces nor-` DANIEL J. MULLINB. 

